The Mohn Westlake Foundation is proud to provide funds to Full Fact to increase the reach and impact of the organisation’s critical work fact checking harmful claims.

Full Fact is a team of independent fact checkers and campaigners who are fighting back against bad information by finding, exposing and countering the harm it does. It is not one insoluble problem. Fact checking specific claims every day shows it for what it really is: many different problems, many of which can be solved or improved. There are pinch points in the flow of information, moments when changing a few people’s minds, an algorithm, or a system can help better information serve millions. Fact checking helps find those pinch points.

In a world with more information than ever, it’s hard to know what’s true and what’s not. All around, people are exploiting information for political or financial gain, or hurting other people by being careless about the facts they spread. Bad information ruins lives. It promotes hate, damages people’s health, and hurts democracy. Currently, people who choose to misuse information have an easy time of it.

Full Fact’s mission is to help people to feel able to make confident choices on what information to trust, to know how to seek answers for themselves and to hold their elected officials to account.

The Mohn Westlake Foundation’s grant will aid Full Fact’s plans to invest in building a network of engaged users over the coming years.

To learn more about this project, please visit the grantees website: fullfact.org